African Futures in the Making (Future Rural Africa)

Müller-Mahn, Detlef (EDT)/ Bollig, Michael (EDT)

James Currey（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781847014221

Full Description

What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages?

Bringing together scholars in ecology, agriculture, economics, human geography and cultural anthropology, from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK, this book focusses on social-ecological transformation and future-making in rural Africa, especially in areas of rapid land-use change following the establishment of development corridors, conservation areas, and large-scale infrastructure projects. In Africa, discussions on the way forward are particularly conflict-ridden because people do not agree about desirable goals, because the gap between winners and losers seems to be bigger than elsewhere, and because the struggle for desirable futures is embedded in a problematic history of foreign domination and exploitation.

Focussing on eastern and southern Africa, topics examined range from the history of conservation initiatives and wildlife protection to visions of green development, from the gender implications of extreme climate events on pastoral economies to the use of information and communication technologies on farms and mobile money in geographically remote territories, from large-scale energy infrastructure projects and growth corridors to local ways of managing risk. The volume opens with reflections on African utopic registers of the future and conceptual decolonization in African futurity.

Contents

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Future Rural Africa - social-ecological transformation and future-making: An Introduction
Detlef Müller-Mahn and Michael Bollig

Part One Bringing Future-Making into Perspective - African Perspectives and the Decolonial Turn

1 On the African Utopic Registers of the Future
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
2 Conceptual decolonization in African universities: an imperative for shaping African futures
Martin Ajei

Part Two Technologies, imaginaries, and practices of future-making in rural Africa

3 'In technology we trust': Digital Visions and their Implications for Agricultural Futures in Eastern Africa
Astrid Matejcek, Rupert Neuhöfer, Julian Rochlitz and Julia Verne
4 Green Futures and National Planning: Rhetoric and Reality in Rural East Africa
Eric Kioko, Detlef Müller-Mahn and Max Chuhilla
5 The growth-corridor vision and its realities - regional economic impacts in Namibia and Tanzania
Javier Revilla Diez, Peter Dannenberg, Carolin Hulke, Linus Kalvelage, Gideon Tups and Richard Mbunda
6 The making of a resource periphery? Scalar politics, frontier dynamics, and future-making in Northern Kenya
Clemens Greiner, Britta Klagge, Kennedy Mkutu, Frankline Ndi
7 Africa, The Conservation Continent? Future-Making and the Globalization of Wildlife Protection
Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig

Part Three For prayer, profit, and persistence - aspirations and hope in the future-making in rural Africa

8 Gendered African Futures and Extreme Climate Events in Turkana, Kenya
Maggie Opondo, Gilbert Ouma, Anne Oketchand Dennis Ong'ech
9 Reimagining Africa's Rural Futures in the Age of Mobile Money
Prince K Guma
10 'Joining the church' as a form of future-making?
Il Chamus Christians' futural orientations in Baringo County, Northern Kenya
Dorothea Schulz, Uroš Kovač
11 The politics of anticipation in East Africa's rangelands
Ian Scoones, Tahira Shariff Mohamed and Masresha Taye

Epilogue: African futures and the way forward
Detlef Müller-Mahn and Michael Bollig